Well the officer seemed to have been refering too how children grow up these days. Saying when he was a kid they were raised on Pac-Man and Board games compared to how children these days are raised on GTA. Also his statement was probably taken out of context notice they don't name the officer so theirs no way of confirming that he said this or in such a context.

The media likes to promote contriversy they know by blaming a video game that they will get huge publicity and attract more viewers. Here where I live the media is always blaming movies and video games for almost everything. Fact is this kind of news gets alot of views and more attention then if they simply said the kids were insaine.

So were other movies, that ended up being more successful. Here's the list of the top selling DVDs of 2011 (so far):

http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2011.php

The same site has a list of the top selling DVDs last year. No Saw movie was even in the top 100. If you browse the list, you'll see that the top movies aren't very violent, and certainly not gorry.

Tangled over HP?there must be a good reason for that.
EDIT : actually HP movies are more of a cinema event,tangled is a family picture,thats a really good reason

Your sig seems incredibly apt in this thread, because that seems to be exactly what's happening. Aside from it being 13 year old chavs causing trouble rather than men.

Yeah,nice sense of observation

games like gta, CoD etc are not gory but yes are violent but that violence usually is in the form of fist fights, shooting etc and never really reaches a level above some of the movies mentioned

some of the top movies here like true grit, red, inception, unstoppable etc all have fist fights, shooting etc just like battlefield, CoD, gta etc... i wouldn't really say that the violence in these games extends that far over what is seen in these movies

Most studios make sure their films avoid the R rating, because it increases the number of people that would go and see the movie.

GTA is extremely violent, due to the fact that you can essentially go and kill regular bystanders on the street. If it were a movie, it would be rated at least R, which would significantly hurt it's box office gross (no R rated movie is even in the top 20 highest grossing films list). Same would go for CoD, if it were a movie. True Grit was like Unforgiven for kids, and none of the movies you mentioned can even compare in terms of violence (and sex and drug-related content) to GTA. If parents actually payed attention to video game ratings like they do with movie ratings, GTA would only sell a small fraction of what it currently sells.

i remeber the construction yard, i remember being shot at, i remeber a big dumptruk, but not a riot.

"If parents actually payed attention to video game ratings like they do with movie ratings, GTA would only sell a small fraction of what it currently sells"

true, i actually played gta san andreas back when i was 14 and somehow i haven't grown up into an axe carrying sexual deviant